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Hydra Booking — Appointment Scheduling & Booking Calendar

A complete appointment scheduling and booking calendar for WordPress — integrates with WooCommerce, Google Calendar, Zoom, and more.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.2.8
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.8 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update14 Oct 202619d ago
Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.4 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Hydra Booking — Appointment Scheduling & Booking Calendar version 1.2.8 as active, updated 19d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Hydra Booking is a flexible appointment scheduling and calendar management solution for WordPress

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Hydra Booking is a WordPress plugin that provides a complete appointment scheduling and calendar management system. It supports unlimited appointments and integrates with WooCommerce for payment processing. With its intuitive interface, Hydra Booking helps businesses of all sizes manage appointments and bookings efficiently.

🎉 WHO SHOULD USE HYDRA BOOKING

Hydra Booking is a flexible and powerful WordPress booking system designed to suit a wide range of industries. Whether you’re managing personal appointments, client consultations, or business schedules, Hydra Booking adapts seamlessly to your workflow.

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Freelancers: Ideal for freelancers offering services such as consulting, coaching, or design. Hydra Booking helps manage appointments effortlessly, ensuring a smooth and professional booking experience for clients.

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IT Agencies: Suitable for IT firms that schedule client consultations, demo sessions, or support meetings. Hydra Booking streamlines scheduling so agencies can focus on delivering exceptional service.

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Health & Wellness: Built for spas, wellness centers, massage studios, aromatherapists, therapists, and life coaches — Hydra Booking keeps your client appointments organized and your schedule stress-free.

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Beauty & Lifestyle: From hair salons and barber shops to nail studios, cosmetology centers, and tanning salons, Hydra Booking helps lifestyle businesses simplify and automate their booking process.

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Fitness & Sports: Suitable for yoga instructors, personal trainers, dance studios, Zumba classes, or golf sessions — Hydra Booking makes managing classes, memberships, and one-on-one sessions easy.

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Medical & Clinics: Doctors, dentists, and healthcare professionals can rely on Hydra Booking for efficient patient appointment management with clear scheduling and calendar views.

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Professional Services: Consultants, lawyers, real estate agents, gym owners, photographers, wedding planners, plumbers, and contractors can manage their client meetings with ease using Hydra Booking.

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Education: Ideal for coaching centers, tutors, language schools, and seminar organizers — Hydra Booking helps educators manage classes, one-on-one lessons, and event registrations efficiently.

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Service & Maintenance: Car repair shops, cleaning services, bike repair centers, and heavy vehicle workshops can streamline bookings and ensure smooth service delivery.

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Sales & Marketing: Suitable for scheduling team meetings, marketing sessions, and client consultations — Hydra Booking helps teams stay coordinated and productive.

In short, this appointment booking WordPress plugin empowers your clients to schedule, book events, and make payments directly on your website. With Hydra Booking, building a site like Calendly or Simply Schedule Appointments becomes easy and efficient. As a comprehensive tool for booking management, Hydra Booking includes both essential and advanced features to cater to all your appointment and scheduling needs.

Here’s what Hydra Booking offers:

🎉 DIVERSE MEETING TYPES & LOCATIONS

Hydra Booking supports various meeting formats:

  • One-on-One Meetings: Personalize appointments with individual clients.
  • Group Meetings: Host group sessions and collaborate effectively.
  • Recurring Meetings: Set up recurring sessions for both one-on-one and group meetings
  • Versatile Formats: Support for one-on-one, one-to-group sessions.
  • Location Flexibility: Choose virtual, in-person, or phone-based meeting options.
  • Custom Locations: Add unique meeting location types.

🎉 DIFFERENT MEETING LOCATIONS

Choose the suitable format and location for your appointments:

  • Online Meetings: Provide direct booking links for virtual appointments.
  • In-Person Meetings: Organize face-to-face sessions at physical locations.
  • Phone Calls: Offer phone-based consultations for convenience.
  • Custom Locations: Tailor location details based on specific needs.

🎉 FORM INTEGRATION

  • Contact Form 7 Compatibility: Enable appointment scheduling with the widely-used Contact Form 7 plugin.
  • Fluent Forms Integration: Effortlessly connect Hydra Booking with Fluent Forms for smooth booking management.
  • Gravity Forms Integration: Extend the functionality of your booking forms with easy integration between Hydra Booking and Gravity Forms.
  • Upcoming Integrations: Support for Sure Forms Integration, expanding flexibility and options.

🎉 AUTOMATED NOTIFICATIONS and REMINDERS

Say goodbye to no-shows and cancellations with automated notifications for all bookings.

  • Email Notifications: Send booking confirmations, rescheduling updates, and reminders automatically.
  • Custom Notification Settings: Tailor notifications by booking status.
  • SMS Notifications (Pro): Notify via SMS or WhatsApp using Twilio integration
  • Slack & Telegram (Pro): Receive booking notifications directly in Slack or Telegram channels.

🎉 PAYMENT OPTIONS

  • WooCommerce Integration: Direct clients to WooCommerce’s secure checkout for payments.
  • Multiple Payment Options: Supports PayPal and Stripe for easy transactions.
  • Flexible Pricing: Designate certain bookings as free or paid.

🎉SEAMLESS INTEGRATIONS

Hydra Booking integrates with leading tools to elevate your business:

  • CRM & Email Integration: Connect with CRMs like Zoho, AWeber, and FluentCRM.
  • Appointment booking calendar Sync: Integrate with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook calendars to avoid double bookings.
  • Video Conferencing: Automatic Zoom or Google Meet links for virtual appointments.
  • Webhook Support (Pro): Transfer data across applications with ease.

🎉 POWERFUL DASHBOARD & ANALYTICS

Track and analyze your business performance directly from your dashboard:

  • Real-Time Booking Insights: Monitor bookings, earnings, and completed and canceled appointments with options to view data daily, weekly, or monthly.
  • Performance Analytics: Visual reports provide insights into booking patterns and trends.
  • Instant Notifications: Receive real-time updates on bookings and site activity.

🎉 BOOKING VIEWS

  • List and Calendar Views: Display bookings by list or calendar, sorted by daily, weekly, or monthly formats.
  • Custom Filters: Locate bookings by host, date, or other parameters.

🎉 IMPORT & EXPORT

  • Export Options: Export data in JSON or CSV formats.
  • Import Support: Upload files to restore or migrate data with ease.
  • Settings Control: Import/export Settings, Hosts, Meetings, and Bookings.

🎉 APPOINTMENT BOOKING FORMS

Create and customize appointment booking forms to simplify the booking process.

  • Add appointment calendar to forms for event selection.
  • Collect important attendee data through form integrations.
  • Use form insights to enhance customer service.

🎉 ADVANCED AVAILABILITY & SCHEDULING OPTION

Effortlessly set and manage your availability for appointments & schedule bookings so you can focus on delivering quality service.

  • Define weekly availability hours and days for appointments.
  • Set availability for specific date ranges or open-ended future dates.
  • Offer multiple meeting durations for clients to choose from.
  • Add date overrides to accommodate special occasions or changes.
  • Customize appointment descriptions for better service understanding.
  • Include buffer times between appointments for preparation or breaks.
  • Limit booking frequency and lock time zones if required.
  • Add custom questions to gather details about attendee needs.
  • Automatically adjust time zones for attendees, ensuring accuracy.
  • Create a Booking page with the power of WordPress Shortcode.
  • Manage all your online booking systems in one go.
  • Booking schedule with Online Booking Calendar

🎉 ADVANCED SETTINGS AND MANAGEMENTS

Easily manage hosts and accessibility settings

  • Hosts can easily manage meetings, bookings, availability, integrations, and much more
  • Admins now have full control over host access permissions.

In summary, Hydra Booking provides a complete and flexible system for managing appointments and scheduling in WordPress, making it suitable for a wide range of businesses and service types.

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Our Support

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • appointment booking
  • appointments
  • calendar
  • scheduling
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.8 · PHP 7.4
Update activity14 Oct 202619d ago

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Version1.2.71.2.8
Version1.2.61.2.7
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.3
Version1.2.51.2.6
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.1
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